Jacques Schader

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Jacques Schader (1968)
The Freudenberg school complex in 2008

Jacques Schader (born March 24, 1917 in Basel ; † January 19, 2007 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss architect . Even though Schader, as an architect of post-war modernism, received a lot of public attention and recognition in specialist publications, his name remains linked to his masterpiece, the 'Acropolis of Zurich', as the NZZ called it: the Freudenberg school complex in Zurich's Enge district .

Life

After high school and one year of studies at the Basel School of Applied Arts , he worked for the interior designer August Baur for two years before Schader studied architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1939–1943 . He founded his own office in 1946 after he and his fellow students Oskar Burri and Otto Glaus had won the competition for a gynecological clinic at the Zurich Cantonal Hospital, a design that was never realized. 1948–1953 Schader was the editor of the newly founded trade journal Bauen + Wohnen . Schader initially built some residential buildings such as a small but sophisticated holiday home in Ticino as well as administrative and industrial buildings - the now demolished headquarters of the Swiss Fruit Association in Zug or a warehouse and mill building in Uznach.

Then, however, in 1954 Schader won the competition for the Freudenberg Cantonal School , his main architectural work, the first new high school building in Zurich since 1909 with 1400 pupils. Schader found a congenial partner in the designated Rector, Max Allenspach , who was willing to help develop a new school concept for his vision of a transparent, open and light-flooded school.

In addition, Schader also built pioneering, clear buildings of the small form, such as the traffic pavilion on Bucheggplatz from 1956, for which he was also awarded the city of Zurich's award for good buildings .

Since 1960 full professor at the ETH, he then worked alongside his teaching activities on various levels, in research and as a reviewer and juror in competitions. In his work from the 1970s onwards, he built numerous and large buildings, including the Brown, Boveri & Cie apprentice training center in 1982 and his last work, a residential complex in Spreitenbach, from 1987 to 1992.

Works (in selection)

  • Gynecological Clinic Cantonal Hospital , Zurich, 1st prize competition 1945–1946 (with Oskar Burri and Otto Glaus , not carried out)
  • Holiday home Hegnauer , Gandria, 1946
  • Schoolhouse , Zurich 1947–1948
  • Swiss Fruit Association , administration building, Zug, 1950 (with Godi Cordes, probably destroyed)
  • House for a family of graphic artists , Zurich-Witikon 1951
  • Landverband St. Gallen , mill with warehouse, Uznach, 1953–1954
  • Bucheggplatz traffic pavilion , Zurich, 1956
  • Freudenberg school building , Zurich, 1956–1960
  • School complex Eugen-Huber-Str. , Extension, Zurich, 1962–1964
  • House for a collector , Innerberg-Säriswil, 1962, 1968–1970
  • Apartment building , Zurich 1964–1965
  • House for a single lady, Wilen, 1965–1967
  • Parish Hall Aussersihl , Zurich, 1964, 1970–1973
  • IBM Switzerland headquarters , Zurich, 1967–1973
  • Single-family house , own house, Schwerzenbach, 1972–1974
  • Langgrüt Retirement Home , Zurich, 1975–1977
  • Office building of the Swiss Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn, 1966, 1976–1977
  • Institute building , University of Zurich, 1978–1981
  • Apprentice training center of the BBC , Zurich, 1978–1982
  • Residential development Schleipfe 1 , Spreitenbach, 1987–1991
  • Post office building , Lenzburg 1984, 1994–1995

Prices

literature

  • Marianne Burkhalter, Michael Koch, Claude Lichtenstein, Tomaso Zanoni: Freudenberg. The architect Jacques Schader and the canton school in Zurich-Enge. A monograph on buildings with a list of selected works . Museum of Design Zurich, Swiss Werkbund (ed.). Zurich 1992. ISBN 3-907065-48-8
  • Walter Zschokke, Michael Hanak (ed.): Post-war modernity in Switzerland. Architecture by Werner Frey, Franz Füeg, Jacques Schader, Jakob Zweifel . Birkhäuser, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7643-6638-9
  • Tomaso Zanotti: Schader, Jacques. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century . Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 475 f.
  • Jakob Doubt: Jacques Schader. 1917-2007 . In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen . tape 94 , no. 4 , 2007, p. 70 f . ( e-periodica.ch ).
  • Michael Hanak: Jacques Schader (1917-2007). Architecture for post-war modernism . gta Verlag, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-85676-373-2 and tribute to the 100th birthday in the NZZ: Masterpieces of Post-War Modernism , NZZ, March 24, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Competition for a new gynecological clinic at the Zurich Cantonal Hospital . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 128 , no. 3 , 1946, pp. 31 ff . ( online ). online ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.e-periodica.ch
  2. ↑ Silvia Kugler: A holiday home on the rock of Gandria . In: Building + Living . tape 1-5 (1947-1949) , no. 2 , p. 18th ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-327835 .
  3. ^ NN: Administration building of the Swiss Fruit Association in Zug . In: Building + Living . tape 1-5 (1947-1949) , no. 9 , p. 16 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-328016 .
  4. ^ NN: Association mill in Uznach SG . In: The work . tape 43 , no. 2 , 1956, p. 33 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-33258 .
  5. ^ NN: Traffic pavilion on Bucheggplatz in Zurich . In: Building + Living . tape 10 , no. 9 , 1956, pp. 291–295, with appendix , doi : 10.5169 / seals-329304 .
personal data
SURNAME Schader, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2007
Place of death Zollikon